Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. Why does vintage matter to you?

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

Ham and Christopher met in the busy Boston angel investing community where they both started and operated angel networks. As friends, they quickly sensed the potential for partnership, and in 2010 joined forces and merged their groups to build what is now a nationally-recognized angel network, Launchpad Venture Group.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Maybe they were in their 20s in 2002 when being a startup CEO wasn’t really available to most? Being a CEO begets the network to be a CEO. But I also have advice for the 15% that really do want to be a startup CEO. These people wished they had done it in their 20s but didn’t make that choice.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? The Past (1985-2002). And so it goes with social networking.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Networks: Public relations specialists and publicists develop media personnel relations to increase their brand’s media coverage. Reebok held a press conference in 2002 to let the world know that the company would sponsor Shakira’s worldwide concert tour. Here are a few examples of publicity that explain the concept better.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. A recent example would be Compuware’s $295 million acquisition of Gomez , a networking monitoring company.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

to report information about the company, the company applicant (see the definitions below), and its “beneficial owners” to the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), with limited exemptions primarily for large companies. and foreign companies that qualify to do business in the U.S. xv) Accounting firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. It was the best 5 days of networking I spent last year. But for all of the speakers Paddy brought over he also organized private events for us to network amongst ourselves. Scenes from my counter-top on my last night in Dublin.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. They seem to have bounced back nicely. I was baffled. It was 2007.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In May 2002, The New York Times published an article about two survivors who were saved by a man wearing a red bandana. As I get to the end of this thrilling, five-year journey, there are several lessons learned I would like to share: Work the EO Network. When the Crowthers read this, they knew they had “found” Welles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. They seem to have bounced back nicely. I was baffled. It was 2007.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

A lot has changed since Iyuno was started in 2002 by executive chairman David Lee while he was an undergraduate in Seoul. Back then it provided mainly English to Korean subtitles for television networks. “Our client base was mostly local and some regional broadcasters.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

As a 2020 Wall Street Journal piece points out, while computer-aided software became the norm in the ’70s and ’80s, it wasn’t until 2002 that 3D modeling arrived with Autodesk’s purchase of building information modeling (BIM) software vendor Revit.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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